year: 2024
place: Prague
concept,script and direction: Savka Marenić
costumes: Savka Marenić
video & dramaturgy: Nika Datiaschvili
sound design: Jonáš Richter, Jonáš Balcar, Nikola Janković
performers: Nikola Janković, Gabriela Veselá, Milena Raičević photos: Adéla Vosičková
An immersive audio-walk and performance set around Vyšehrad metro station and Nusle Bridge gradually reveals the secrets, legends, and identity of this space. The Nusle Valley, with its iconic bridge, becomes the stage for a performative experience that blends historical and fictional narratives, weaving together reality and myth. What do we discover when we view the space through the eyes of a tourist or follow a date unfolding in this vulnerable environment?
Whisper in the Valley explores the performative qualities of public transit spaces, offering a different perspective on a place marked by trauma. Through fiction and performance, it aims to highlight the care and our new connection to the space that has been deeply marked by the physical, urban impact of Nusle Bridge, as well as by its psychological and social implications. The Nusle’s bridge which connects the city, it is also a site of personal loss and various transformations, its presence linked to many suicides and social changes that have left an indelible mark on the valley.
The walk was enriched by original music, field recordings, and costumes that amplify the narrative and stimulate the audience's imagination and interpretation of story.
video: ©Nika Datiashvili
photos, copyright to ©Adéla Vosičková